>> well, you have to understand jeff, who i play in the movie, spent 30 years searching for justice for victims like little kailee anthony. he had an almost perfect record. i think he was 12 for 12 in death penalty cases. so it seemed like the perfect guy for the perfect job in a slam-dunk case. and it was his last case before retirement. and he lost it. and really what this movie is about is this man's journey and how do you reconcile that and can you move on. and of course, how did it happen in the first place. >> you have another new movie out this month. it's titled "knife fight" in which you play a political operative dealing with some of the shall we say less than honorable aspects of politics. do you think this is a more pessimistic take on politics than we saw from you "the west wing"? >> it's the alternative universe version. "the west wing" was very earnest and reverential. sort of what you hoped politics would be. this is satire. it's more raucous, fun, sort of oh, i can't believe they went the there version of what goes on in politics. and it's actually written by the actual